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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. For this coin value lesson, students compare and contrast various coins to aid in identification, sort coins from smallest to largest, and match an equal number of pennies to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Money Matters

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this money matters worksheet, students match the pictures of the coins to appropriate piggy banks mark with money amounts.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Counting Money - up to $10

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this counting money learning exercise, students count coins and bills up to $10 in each problem. Students complete 10 problems total on this learning exercise.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Counting Money

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this counting money activity, students count the amount of money in each problem with coins up to dimes. Students complete 10 problems.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Counting money - coins

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money instructional activity, students count coins in problems up to quarters. Students complete 10 problems total on this instructional activity.
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Worksheet
LearnEnglishFeelGood.com

Count or Non-Count Nouns?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Many learners struggle with the difference between count and non-count nouns. When do you use a few or a little? Or much or many? Take a look at ten sentences where young grammarians can use context clues to decide which noun fits in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Money Versus Trade

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover the importance of exchanging money in a market. In this economics instructional activity, students discover natural resources and how one can barter with those resources. In addition, students complete worksheets and...
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Worksheet
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Busy Teacher’s Café

"Smart" by Shel Silverstein

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Find out just how smart your young mathematicians are with this cross-curricular math and language arts lesson. After first reading Shel Silverstein's poem "Smart", students draw pictures of coins to model the different exchanges...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Coins in a Circular Pattern

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
What starts as a basic question of division and remainders quickly turns abstract in this question of related ratios and radii. The class works to surround a central coin with coins of the same and different values, then develops a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. In this money lesson, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Buggin' Out (Identifying and Adding Amounts of Money)

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore consumer math by participating in estimate exercises. In this currency lesson plan, students identify and define each piece of U.S. currency and their value to the monetary system. Students complete several money...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dollars and Cents Word Problems

For Students K - 1st
These are some cheap items! Learners explore cost with this addition word problem which has them examine the price of a baseball and a pencil. They add them together to find the total spent. Because there is an explanation below,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Counting Change and Changing Coins

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate how to count change. In this consumer math lesson, 2nd graders read the book The Penny Pot and identify the value of coins. Students complete a worksheet to practice counting coins.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Get Ready, Get Set, Squeeze!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. In this money counting and social studies lesson, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for a lemonade...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Money Amounts to 50 Cents

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this money worksheet, students add sets of coins, writing the total amount on a line next to each set. Coins add up to amounts to 50 cents. Reference website is given for additional activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How do You Stack Up? Revisited

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students estimate the thickness of coins. In this stack up instructional activity, students stack pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They calculate and record the thickness of each coin. Students stack coins and estimate the height...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Give Me the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students view a money transaction on video and identify the steps involved in making a purchase and calculating change. They write out original money math problems and exchange them with classmates.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Much Money?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders count money.  In this money lesson, 6th graders count sets of coins and dollar bills.  During specified activities, they total orders and calculate the amont of change a customer should receive.  Students take turns...
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Lesson Plan
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Money Bags

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore different combinations of coins that can be used for specified amounts of money using paper money and tree diagrams. They write money amounts in different forms. Groups utilize a tree diagram imbedded in this lesson...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Money Math Carnival

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore money in a carnival format. In this money lesson, 3rd graders create a carnival of mathematics activities. Students determine the value of money in mixed amounts and explore how to create representations of money.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Addition With Coins and Dollar Bills

For Students 2nd
For this coins and bills worksheet, 2nd graders solve 5 addition problems using coins and bills instead of numbers. Students write their answers up to $5.00 on the lines provided.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Coins to Bills!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice using money at a grocery store. For this money lesson, students get familiar with grocery store ads and work in pairs to use these ads to select food items to purchase using money manipulatives. Students practice being...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

My Extraterrestrial Counting Book

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this extraterrestrial counting activity, students assemble and color a mini personal book on counting from one to ten with extraterrestrial objects.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Purchasing Items Using the Next Dollar Strategy

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Drill and practice is the method of teaching for today. Special needs pupils practice rounding to the next dollar value when purchasing an item at the store. They are shown flash cards with a monetary value, they then have 3-5 seconds to...